David, Thanks for the tip. I guess I'm going to have to hurry along with this calibration thing.
Bruce Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 9:53:54 PM, you wrote: DAM> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> I'm wondering if there are any quick and dirty places to look to just >> spot check for general color cast before I get into full/real >> calibration? DAM> Compared to 9300K, which is the usual setting for monitors, 6500K does DAM> look very yellow; 5500K even more so. 6500K is recommended as this is DAM> the white point for both the sRGB and Adobe RGB working colour spaces. DAM> At least one calibration package (OptiCal, which you can get bundled with DAM> the Spyder) allows you to do this as a pre-calibration step before DAM> calibrating and profiling. You adjust the R/G/B controls on your screen DAM> until both the colour temperature and luminance are correct. After that DAM> you proceed through the actual calibration and profiling steps. DAM> Cheers, DAM> - Dave DAM> http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/